Firefox problem

[Drawoh Tesremos]

I've been running Firefox as my preferred browser now for at over six years, and until recently have had no problems.

I typically run with around 15-20 tabs, most of which remain from day to day.

However, recently, about a month ago, I noticed a delay being introduced. When I click a link, no matter what it is, there is an appreciable dely before I get the ability to do anything else with the browser. That delay seems to be increasing in time, and has now reached 5 seconds.

I get no similar problems with either IE8 or Opera.

I've tried uninstalling Firefox, downloading the latest, and reinstalling, but no improvement. I've tried with just one tab, and again no improvement - still this five second delay before I can do anything.

Has anyone else experienced this? And can anyone offer any advice?

 

[subbass]

Yes I have the exact same problem since I upgraded to 3.6.3. I used to be able to run with loads of tabs or windows without it slowing down. It has been a little better with 3.6.4 for me.

 

[knowledge123]

Firstly; Check you CPU, is Firefox using the CPU? Have you any background tasks hogging it?

Second; Try renaming/moving your Firefox profile in C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, does that solve anything?

Thirdly; have you modified the about:config?

 

[Mattus]

You need to create a new profile - fixes 99% of Firefox problems. Reinstalling Firefox often doesn't help as it only deletes the program files.

 

[richb93]

Same problem, drove me up the wall. Switched to Chrome and I only use FF time and again for StumbleUpon.

 

[memyselfandi]

I'm getting a similar issue with Firefox on one system (and mostly affecting GMail where it's running very very slowly ... account works fine on other systems) ... I agree that a new profile will probably help (I just haven't got around to it yet)

 

[richb93]

I'm getting a similar issue with Firefox on one system (and mostly affecting GMail where it's running very very slowly ... account works fine on other systems) ... I agree that a new profile will probably help (I just haven't got around to it yet)

It seems a big pain in the bum to do, especially considering it really shouldn't happen in the first place. :/

 

[Drawoh Tesremos]

Thanks for the replies.
Got a new profile now, and working well.
Is it possible to switch back to the other one if necessary, to recover some important information? Maybe even have two instances running simultaneously while I pick up links. And if so, how do I specify which profile I want to use? The text in profile manager seems so suggest that if I've got multiple profiles I get a prompt on firefox startup to ask which profile I'm going to want. But I've had no such prompt.

Again thanks for the reponses. I'm pleased that I'm not going to have to abandon Firefox.